This is Topias. When I left for HA last October we had just diagnosed him with cancer in his kidney. Since then he has undergone chemotherapy and surgery and as far as we can tell he seems to be cured. He is happy, his mom is happy and we are very happy with how he is doing. We don’t always get good results with cancer, especially with kids, so I am very thankful that he is doing well and gets to eat sausage and be a kid again. Pray that the cancer would stay away and that he can continue to enjoy his childhood.
Source: Doing well from Erin Meier – Asia Pacific
Can't speak
When pts come into my room, the first question I ask them, is what is wrong, why have they come. Often the watchman tries to answer for them, but I really want the patient themselves to to share what they are feeling, not to hear it through the watchman, but this time, only the watchman could speak. The watchman told me that the patient woke up the yesterday and hasn’t been able to talk since. In front of me was a 50ish year old man who was a pastor. He could understand everything I was saying, but he couldn’t speak. He most likely had a stroke that affected his speaking, something called Broca’s aphasia. Sometimes it gets better on it’s own and sometimes it doesn’t. As I prayed for him, it made me think of Zechariah who went into the temple, saw an angel of God and came out being unable to speak, until John was named after he was born. I prayed that Samson will speak again, that one day he will be able to communicate again to his church, his congregation and share all that God is doing in his life. Pray with me.
Source: Can't speak from Erin Meier – Asia Pacific
Not very appetizing
We never quite know what the patient who comes into our exam room is going to tell us or what we are going to find on exam. A women complained of having something coming out of her bottom. Assuming it was going to be a hemorrhoid, Bill looked and instead found a squiggly worm poking his head out to say Hi. After successfully removing the work, he told me to go and look in his trash can. Seeing it in the trash didn’t quite do it justice, so Bill picked him up and proudly showed him off. I am glad that was in someone else.
Source: Not very appetizing from Erin Meier – Asia Pacific